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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Success, Nothing, Difficult

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

God, Best, Hope

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
Bernard Meltzer

Blessed, Give, Forgetting

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
Dave Barry

Person, Another, Fact

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry Ford

Sick, Healthy, Exercise

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

Hate, Yourself, Mind

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Camille Claudel

Character, Greatest, Everyone

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule

Work, Lazy, Down

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry Rollins

Destiny, Hatred, Matter

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama

Important, Career, Play

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Tony Robbins

Life, Enough, Few

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton

Love, Good, Care

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken

Few, Leaders, Takes

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack Obama

Put, Last, Economy

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton

Men, Fear, Brave

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Niccolo Machiavelli

God, Free, Away

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy

Men, Freedom, Law

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, God, Children

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Steve Jobs

Computers, Happen, After

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields

Time, Face, Situation

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

War, Soldiers, Week

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
Barack Obama

Time, Crisis, Ourselves

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
Ron Paul

End, System, Taken

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Friendship, True

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke

Power, Powerful, Cannot

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck

Struggle, Person, Two

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

Start, Themselves, Seriously

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Epictetus

View, Disturbed

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman

Life, Live, Powerful

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